Partnerships and teams in the familyand other things from the 2010 HSC conference
Talks, notes, links, fun.

The notes are sparse, the talks are long, even though that first one ends abruptly.

Unschooling: How to Screw it Up

Michaelangelo said that to carve his statue of David, he just chipped away everything that didn't look like David. Or maybe he didn't say that. But clearly that's what he ultimately did. Here will be ideas to help you chip away what doesn't look like unschooling. It's not as difficult as you might think.

Found this quote on Joyce Fetteroll's page, with my name on it:

One easy way to decide how to be is to picture clearly what would make things worse, and then not do that. —Sandra Dodd

Also at that conference, Kirby and I were interviewed for a long time, and I'll bring a link to a place to buy that, I hope. A little of it made it into a documentary called Class Dismissed: A Film about Learning Outside of the Classroom, and the same site has (might still) an option to get the individual interviews, whole. (Here: scroll down; buy for $3, rent for $2)

But wait! :-) A week after I wrote this paragraph, I discovered that it has been uploaded to YouTube, by the filmmakers. Sweet.

It needs to be watched rather than just heard, as the questions are put up on visually without voice-over.

Other presentations that weekend, links and notes, but no recordings:

Writey-Drawey: A pencil and paper game

Writey-Drawey is a game for several players at once, involving pencils and paper (to be provided). Players will need to read some, and have legible printing (because some people can't read cursive writing). For those too curious to wait, there are directions and samples here: http://sandradodd.com/writey

Connecting the dots, literally and figuratively. Come and work on your model of the universe. Materials will be provided, and we'll use "Thinking Sticks" for part of the workshop. The theme will be water. If you have obstacles to dot-connecting, bring those too.

Off-road thinking

Water, flowing off a mountain—where does it go? Partly depends how much of it there is. (quote the thing from Hawaii about coral bouncing up on mountains)

But water has a super-hero power. It can evaporate into thin air. (Not all of it, because at some point the air isn't thin anymore and the water falls back out.)

(I wish there was a recording of that one, but there doesn't seem to be.)